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24bit/176.4 kHz Hi-Rez WAV file DVD-ROM

Martin Zeller: Violoncello

* Factory produced DVD-ROM contains 24bit/176.4 kHZ WAV files, liner notes in 5 languages and cover image. This item is offered for use in Computer Audio and Hi-End Music Server applications and will not play in standard DVD players, nor CD players

Suite 4 in E flat major (BWV 1010)

Suite 5 in c minor (BWV 1011)

Suite 6 in D major, for 5 string piccolo cello (BWV 1012)

*This disc contains 24 bit/176.4 kHz Hi Rez WAV files from the original 5.6 Mhz recording. As our classical editing has to be done in PCM, we regret that are not able to make this available in the original DSD format.

MA Recordings is proud to finally make available the 176.4 kHz version of Vol 2 of the last three unaccompanied cello suites by J. S. Bach, performed to baroque perfection by Swiss cellist Martin Zeller.

Volume two of J. S. Bach`s unaccompanied cello suites was recorded at 5.6 MHz DSD, utilizing our own MA Recordings' modified Korg MR2000s, along with MA Recordings` custom made, line level DC powered microphones on suites 4 and 6 and DPA 4006 microphones on suite 5. Microphone amplification on suite 5 was by Marcel Croese of Create Audio, located in Utrecht, Holland (www.creatoaudio.com)

Of Swiss descent, MARTIN ZELLER studied the modern cello at the Musikhochschule in Zürich with Markus Stocker and Claude Starck and in London with William Pleeth. He then joined the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis to study baroque cello with Christophe Coin and viola da gamba with Paolo Pandolfo.

At present he is principal cello of the Kammerorchester Basel which is regularly directed by Giovanni Antonini, Paul McCreesh, David Stern and Christopher Hogwood. He has closely collaborated with many famous soloists and singers such as Carlo Chiarappa, Giuliano Carmignola and Cecilia Bartoli, He has played with various period instrument groups (I Barrocchisti Lugano, Sonatori della Gioiosa Marca, Orchestre Baroque de Limoges, Orchestre des Champs-Elysées) as well as the Ensemble für Neue Musik, Zürich. Among his chamber music partners are Guido Balestracci and Christophe Coin.

Martin Zeller is professor of baroque cello at the Musikhochschule Zürich and teaches at the Chamber Music Academy at the Hindemith Center in Blonay, Switzerland.